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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin consolatio. Doublet of consolation.
Noun
consolatio (plural consolationes)
- A ceremonial oratory used to comfort mourners at funerals.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From cōnsōlor + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
cōnsōlātiō f (genitive cōnsōlātiōnis); third declension
- consolation
1986, Holy See, “Epistula II ad Corinthios 1:5 [2 Corinthians 1:5]”, in NRSV, transl., Nova Vulgata:quoniam, sīcut abundant passiōnēs Chrīstī in nōbīs, ita per Chrīstum abundat et cōnsōlātiō nostra.- For just as the sufferings of Christ are abundant for us, so also our consolation is abundant through Christ.
- comfort
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “consolatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “consolatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- consolatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- consolatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to afford no consolation: nihil habere consolationis
- “consolatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers